Claude Farrère was the psuedonym for French novelist, Frédéric-Charles Bargone. Born
in Lyon in 1876, he entered the French Navy in 1894, reaching the rank of captain
before retiring in 1919. He won the Prix Goncourt in 1905 and was elected to the Académie
française in 1935.

The collection contains letters and postcards from Claude Farrère chiefly to two correspondents,
Madame Dussouchet and Christian Melchior-Bonnet, in addition to a single letter written
to an opium-smoking ensign on a ship; letters written to Melchior-Bonnet from other
correspondents, most concerning Farrère; bound autograph manuscript compositions by
Farrère, including a biography of Pierre Louÿs, 4 photographs of Farrère; a visiting
card; and manuscript ephemera.

Dated at Paris, 1932 March 16 on first leaf and 1932 April 21 on the last.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 2012M-42

Series: IV. Other materials

(14). Claude Farrère : photographs, various dates. 4 photographs in 1 folder.Photographs of Farrère, 2 in naval uniforms (as a young man, 1896, and of a later
date with a ribbon on a formal uniform), 1 of him in 1899, and one photograph of a
sketch of him in 1943.